Filters having low delay and attenuation distortions



May 26, 1970 AKIO MATSUMOTO ETAL 3,514,727

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FILTERS HAVING LOW DELAY AND ATTENUATION DISTORTIONS Filed Feb. 18, 1969 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 3,514,727 FILTERS HAVING LOW DELAY AND ATTENUATION DISTORTIONS Akio Matsumoto, Sapporo-ski, and Kinya Toyama and Kiyomi Kondo, Yokohama-shi, Japan, assignors to Toyo Tsushinki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kanagawa-ken, Japan, a joint-stock company of Japan Continuation-impart of applications Ser. No. 298,149, July 29, 1963, and Ser. No. 699,977, Jan. 19, 1968. This application Feb. 18, 1969, Ser. No.

Int. Cl. H01h 7/10 US. Cl. 333-76 2 Claims (ZQJ an or spectral admittance thereof corresponding to two terminal short-circuit impedance or admittance thereof which is obtained by superposing the short-circuit impedances and L or superposition of the short-circuit admittances 2; and

at a ratio of l/n, where m and n are integers and in which are represented by the following equations respectively;

1 1 Q 1 n (1-o 4 2 2 Ya r 22%]; 1 (m 2 2 2 1 1 r. 1 MAW) (in the case of grade m) 9 1 3 92 Yen" (or zr: =j;-- (1-n )...(1- n (in the case of grade (m+1) where X2 is equal to United States Patent O 3,514,727 Patented May 26, 1970 'ice in which I is a length of a lossless uniform line, L and C are respectively inductance and capacitance per unit length of said line. The above-mentioned spectral impedance and spectral admittance are defined, for example as follows:

In a lumped constant four terminal network, the spectral impedance (Z and spectral admittance (Y fi are defined respectively as (1r/2Xresidue num ber of secondary short-circuit impedance (Z 9) and 1r/2 residue number of one circuit admittance (Y2f)) of said network.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION This application is a continuation-in-part of prior application Ser. No. 298,149 filed on July 29, 1963 and continuation-impart application Ser. No. 699,977 filed filed on Jan. 19, 1968, entitled Filter Having a Low Delay Distortion Characteristic.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION In general, tangent or cotangent of phase shift ([3 of a lossless uniform line having flat delay characteristic is represented by the following equation.

where R, characteristic impedance of a lossless uniform line;

it: 2 /L,,C,, l/n' L C inductance and capacitance per length of line; and 1, length of line.

The above equation is represented by infinite product with respect to 9. Accordingly, in order to realize physically a lumped constant network having flat delay characteristic within a given transmission band range, the equation should be cut off at a finite term. However, separating-away or deviation of the delay characteristic from the true flat value occurs due to the above-mentioned cutting-off. Hitherto, various systems have been proposed to compensate the deviation as described above. One of them is the system of Hester Patent (US. Pat. No. 2,760,167). However, the well-known systems have some disadvantages and not ideal.

. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An essential object of the invention is to provide an improved filter consisting of lumped constant four terminal network and having a low delay distortion and/ or a low attenuation distortion, said filter being able to be composed of a simple circuit, without being accompanied by the disadvantages of the conventional like filters.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved filter consisting of a lumped constant four terminal network and having low delay and attenuation distortions and having real frequency attenuation poles at attenuation range, said network consisting of component circuits each having the most simple form.

Said and other objects of the invention have been attained by adopting specific spectral parameters, that is, spectral impedance and admittance such as described later in detail, and by utilizing superposition method of said spectral parameters.

3 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a schematic circuit diagram of a conventional four terminal network;

FIG. 2 is characteristic curves showing relations between normalized delay time (TN), spectral parameters and S2;

FIG. 3(a) shows a voltage attenuation characteristic cm and a voltage phase characteristic [3 with respect to S2;

FIG. 3(b) and FIG. 3(c) are actual four terminal networks having a low delay distortion and designed according to principle of this invention;

FIG. 4 shows normalized spectral impedances with respect to 52;

FIG. 5 shows envelopes of spectral impedance and admittance with respect to 9;

FIG. 6 shows characteristic curves showing relations between the spectral parameters and S2, said curves being necessary for describing an advantage according to adoption of the spectral parameters;

FIG. 7 shows voltage attenuation characteristic a (db) of a network according to the present invention, with respect to Q and f, in the case of rank 7;

FIG. 8 shows a circuit connection diagram of a network forming a low pass filter formed according to the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic connection diagram of a bridge T type low pass filter according to the present invention;

FIGS. l0(a)-(f) and FIG. 11 show various circuit connection diagrams for obtaining positive band pass filter according to this invention;

FIG. 12 shows a circuit connection diagram of a filter having complex attenuation poles and manufactured according to this invention, said filter consisting of combination of component circuits each having the most simple form, and having necessary real frequency attenuation poles; and

FIG. 13 shows voltage attenuation characteristic 04 and with respect to Q, in the example of FIG. 12.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Referring to FIG. 1, when a power voltage E having an internal resistance R is impressed to input terminals 1-1' of a reactance four terminal network and a load resistance R is connected to output terminals 2-2 of said network, the following transmission Equation 1 can be obtained.

EI1R1=V1=AV2+BI2 I2 2= 2R2 where V I are respectively voltage and current in the side of the input terminals 1-1', V I are respectively voltage and current in the side of the output terminals 2-2, an arrow direction in the drawings being plus, A, B, C, D are four terminal constant of the reactance four terminal network, and A, D are real numbers and B, C are imaginary numbers.

If a voltage transmission factor N and a current transmission factor M are calculated from FIG. 1 and the Equation 1, the following result can be obtained:

1 M R D 12 0 2+ Further, when the input terminals 1-1' are short-circuited or opened, and at this time the short-circuit impedance Z and the open-circuit impedance Z in the secondary side are calculated, the following result can be obtained:

Therefore, from the Equation 3, the following result can be obtained:

6 tan- 1. B tan- R QM: tan tan R -B where, the following relations are taken jX =Z In a certain reactance four terminal network, if it is required that said network has a little delay distortion in the given pass band, that is, its delay characteristic is flat, said network should be arranged so that particular points (zero point and poles) of tan 5 tan 3 or cot B cot 5 of the voltage phase shift 8 and the current phase shift 6 in the Equation 4 or the Equation 5 may be mutually separated and so that the distance therebetween may become equal, as pointed out by Bode patent (US. Pat. 1,828,454) and by Hester patent (US. Pat. 2,760,167).

The above relationship is attributable to the facts that tangent or cotangent of phase shift 5,, of a lossless-uniform line in which the delay characteristic is flat can be represented as shown in the following Equation 6 and that the distances between poles or between zero points are respectively equivalent to 29,, (9 is the distance between particular points, and 9 :1).

1 1 2 2 2 (1 9 25 (6) where R is characteristic impedance L C are inductance and capacitance per single length of :he line; and l is a length of line, in the lossless uniform The above Equation 6 is represented by an infinite product with respect to 9. Accordingly, for the purpose of realizing physically a lumped constant network in which the delay characteristic is flat within a given transmission band, the Equation 6 must be cut off in a certain finite term.

For settling the problem such that how to compensate separating-away (or deviation) from a predetermined flat value of the delay characteristic caused by the aforementioned cutting-off, that is, how to approximate to the fiat value within the transmission band, a number of inventions have been made so far.

For example, in the Hesters patent, by the Equations 24 and 25 in his patcnts specification, the parameters r. k are so selected that the sum of differential coefficients of the square value of the deviation from the flat value may come to zero within the range of the given transmission characteristic w -w that is to say, an approximation in the meaning of the minimum square is carried out.

According to the system of the Hesters patent, end portion of the given transmission band, for example, the neighbourhood of cut-off frequency in the case of a low band filter has the largest deviation, and thus it is impossible to maintain a uniform deviation (approximation of Tchebyschetf) throughout the transmission band. On

the other hand, the object of the Bodes patent is to propose linearization of an image phase shift and is different in the starting point from the Hesters patent and the present invention, both carrying out linearization of voltage phase shift and current phase shift at the resistance terminal. Therefore, we will omit herewith out explanation relating to the circuit of said Bodes patent.

The present invention has the characteristic feature, different from the Hesters patent, in that by introducing spectral parameters and adopting the method of superposition, a lumped reactance four terminal network having a flat delay characteristic is realized, said spectral parameter and method of superposition being described hereinafter in detail.

Transmssion equation of a lossless-uniform line (line length I; phase constant fl inductance L capacitance C,,; and characteristic impedance per unit length) can be represented in the form similar to the 'Equation 1 as follows:

where V I are respectively voltage, current in the transmitting end, and V I are respectively voltage and current in the receiving end.

If the relationship of the Equations 3 and 4 is applied to the Equation 7, the following result can be obtained.

If a spectral impedance (Z 9 and a spectral admittance (Y Q are defined as (1r/ residue numbers of the poles of Z and Y respectively), the residue numbers of the poles of Z Y can be obtained from the Equation 9 as follows:

1 d 1r 2 tan =77- (1S2 Q=113:5" Therefore, the following can be obtained:

( R (Y 25 an 2f err- As clear from the Equation 11, (Z and (Y are equal to characteristic impedance and characteristic admittance. That is to say, the spectral impedance and spectral admittance of a lossless-uniform line having no delay distortion have the nature to coincide with the characteristic impedance. The 'Equation 11 is established on the grounds that in the Equations 6 and 9, the distance between these particular points is equidistance and that these equations are represented by infinite product with respect to 9. Accordingly, if the Equation 6 is cut off in the finite term, the Equation 11 is not established and then has deviation.

Now, we will try to study cause and effect between value of deviation of the spectral impedance (Z Q and admittance (Y fi from R, l/R, and value of deviation of the delay characteristic from a predetermined value (fiat value).

Assuming that the network in FIG. 1 is the lumped constant network, if, for example, the voltage phase characteristic is considered, there is a relationship between the delay characteristic TN and differential coefficients of the phase characteristic B and S2, and in view of the fact that in the vicinity of the zero point,

tan Q the following relationship is obtained.

7' N (Z25) an TON R2 where TON is a normalized constant value of the delay characteristic.

Further, in the vicinity of the pole of Z there is the following relationship:

on m Therefore, the following equation can be obtained.

R2 25 an R2 25 sp Accordingly, the following is established;

[ 2s]sp O N R2 R2 TN 2s] v and value of the normalized delay characteristic 1- 1 oscillates between the normalized s pectral impedance [Z /R and admittance R2 25) an As will be seen from the above fact, according to the present invention, it is possible to realize the network having a low delay distortion within a given transmission band by approximating the spectral impedance [Z k or the spectral admittance [Y of said network to the terminal resistance R FIG. 2 shows a relationship of the Equation 16 and more particularly illustrates the view to the effect that the delay characteristic TN oscillates between the spectral impedance Z and the spectral admittance Y The delay characteristic of FIG. 2 corresponds to the case Where the voltage phase characteristic [3 has the relationship represented by the following equation:

and the voltage attenuation characteristic ca can be given by the following Equation l8-l.

(Note: In the following explanation, let it be assumed that R =1; and meaning of the symbol will be described in the later paragraph.)

FIG. 3(a) represents the characteristic oz and 5 in the above case. Formation of a four terminal lumped constant reactants network having the voltage-phase characteristic [3,; represented by the Equation 17-1 and the voltage attenuation characteristic u represented by the Equation 181 can be realized according to the following method:

in the Equation 17-1 corresponds to secondary shortcircuit impedance as clear from the Equation 3 and FIG. 1, and em in the Equation 18-1 exists at the position where attenuation pole frequency (at this frequency, attenuation becomes infinite) corresponds to infinite frequency (52:00 as clear from the Equation 18-1). Formation of a reactance four terminal network having the above-mentioned and ca can be realized as follows.

If in the Equation 17-1, in is put to be equal to P (P is denoted as complex angular frequency) and converted, the following Equation 17-2 is obtained.

9 P(P +28P +96) 2 4X24 p +10P 9 (17-2) In the Equation 17-2, if P is approached to co,

approaches gradually to 71' 9 (5 904 whereby the secondary short-circuit impedance in FIG. 1 becomes an inductance (L having a value of I. 2 4X24 8 and power number of the denominator is higher by one grade than that of the numerator. Accordingly, since if the condition (P oo) is adopted in 2 becomes zero impedance of the shunt arm should be a capacitance C in order to make correspond to the attenuation poles of (1N in the Equation 18-1. The value of the capacitance C can be calculated from admittance in the same manner as in the case where L is calculated from impedance. That is;

C 64 2 2 P P)w 31r 18 271r The remained admittance obtained by subtracting C from is represented by the following equation.

1 3 2 93P +18 18 Z 271r P(18P +87) Maximum power number of P in is lower by a further one grade than that of and becomes third power, and power number of the denominator is higher by one grade than that of the numerator.

becomes zero at the condition (P- oo), so that according to the same reason as described already in connection with the Equation 17-2,

252'" should correspond to an inductance L; of the series arm.

L 817r 3 P P m49b Power number of P of the remained impedance obtained by subtracting L -P from becomes lower by one grade than that of the impedance If capacitance C; of the shunt arm is calculated from and the above-mentioned method is repeated, the following results are obtained.

Thus, a lumped reactance four terminal network having a and #1,; as shown in FIG. 3(a), which operates under the condition such that input voltage=V output voltfor the admittance age=V and load resistance R=1 ohm, can be formed by ladder circuit network such as shown in FIG. 3(b).

If the Equation 17-1 corresponds to the current phase characteristic 8 tan B can be represented from the Equations 4 and 5 as follows.

1 1 Q (1.... z Q2) (1 Q2 tan am "In this case, the current attenuation characteristic a is represented by the following equation.

QM: 20-10gml D 20-l0g l( 1t'2 (1 92) The-above obtained factors 5 and m are coincident with {i and a shown in FIG. 3(a). Circuit elements therefor can be obtained by substituting the impedance inductance, whereby a ladder circuit network as shown in FIG. 3(0) can be obtained.

Conversion of the networks shown in FIG. 3(b) and FIG. 3(0) into practicallyvv usable circuit structures, for example, realization of a low pass filter in which R =600 ohms and pass band=1000 Hz. (u or a =3 db) can .be attained as follows. Let it be assumed that the network of FIG. 3(b) is considered. Then, from a of FIG. 3(a), 0 corresponding to 3 db becomes 1.8. Accordingly, if a condition (0:1.8) is made to correspond to an angular frequency (W=21r 1000), 9:1 corresponds to the reference cut-off angular frequency (W=21TX555), whereby values of the circuit elements become as follows.

as an example.

If the Equation 6 is cut off at the fourth power which is the maximum power number of 9 (the maximum power number is shown 'by the number in the right upper part of Z the following equation is obtained:

If said Equation 6 is cut off at the fifth power which is the maximum power number of 2, the following equation is obtained:

a (1- m)(1- o Mat r; 4 16 (HF) i (2 When calculating the spectral impedance of the Equations 19 and 20, characteristics as shown in FIG. 4 can be obtained. In FIG. 4, the deviation direction from the normalized value (R of than the term having lower power number.

Accordingly, when a new two terminal impedance in the Equation 17-1 is formed by adding and at a certain ratio, it may be possible to decrease deviation of the spectral impedance from the normalized value than those of and l ilaD The present invention has 'been paid attention to the above point, and it will be clear that the spectral impedance of the Equation 17-1 represented by the following equation:

is better than iilsm l ilsv in FIG. 4, as shown in FIG. 2. Such a technique is called superposition, which is fundamentally different from the Hesters invention. Superposition ratio in the Equation 21 is 1:2, but said ratio varies in accordance with high and low rank of power number. The most appropriate ratio varies along the same characteristic curve as FIG. 4 in accordance with power rank, so that said appropriate ratio can be obtained from said characteristic curve.

Another example adapted to prove the effectiveness of the superposition will be described in the following.

In the case of cutting-off the Equation 6 at the ninth power which is the maximum power number of said equation and carrying out twice the superposition, the following equation is obtained:

1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 jmjggp 1 1 1 1 btl in which a factor of is multiplied. In the Equation 22, if a and b are determined so that is established at each point of Q=i6 and i8, the spectral impedance affords the characteristic as shown with a full line in FIG. 5.

of the Equation 22, the following factors can be used:

1bS2 (1-179 (1dSl (1a2 (1cS2 (1at2 )(1cn (23) In the above-mentioned explanation, we have clarified the following facts (A) and (B) in connection with simple examples, in which the attenuation characteristic a or cm is increased in a simple manner, that is, all the attenuation poles exist at, infinite frequency range.

(A) Relationships between the delay characteristic and spectral impedance, spectral admittance.

(B) The fact that the superposing method is effective as the means for minimizing the deviation of the delay characteristic from the normalized value at a given transmission band.

In the following, circuit structures of filters each having a low delay distortion, in which the attenuation characteristic is converted to a complex form, will be described.

Now, we explain a circuit structure of a filter having a low delay distortion and formed according to the principle of the present invention.

Since the voltage transmission coefficient N (the current transmission coeflicient M has the relative relationship with N, so that the explanation will be made about only N) can be given by the Equation 2, where R is assumed to be 1, that is R =1, and the voltage attenuation characteristic a and the voltage phase characteristic (8 can be represented by the following equation:

tan H Accordingly, when A and B are multiplied by a common factor, tan 6 is constant, but a is changed. In other words, by determining said common factor suitably, it is possible to decrease the delay distortion by the aforementioned method, thereby to compensate the attenuation characteristic, the detailed explanation of which will be made in the following:

If the admittance matrix of the reactance four terminal network in FIG. 1 is represenated as Yn Yiz] Y12 Yzz the following equations are represented by a polynominal of n:

where l is a maximum power number and equal to power rank of the circuit network, and

are residue numbers of poles at, of component admittance matrix sections.

Attenuation poles correspond to the root in the numerator of Y and A(0) in the numerator of Y of the Equation 26 indicates the form in the case of having no attenuation poles except at positions where Q: co.

If the attenuation poles are put as t2=- *-S2a, :ob Y can be indicated as follows:

Y12= Tjm 27 If the afore-mentioned common factor is given as QQQ), the following equations can be obtained from the Equation 25.

a -a B1 o n By substituting the above for the Equation 24, the following equation is obtained:

n g s2 9 where, such a form as set forth below is taken:

For the purpose of improving the attenuation distortion within a predetermined pass band, in the case of satisfying the following equations at m points in the pass band,

If n is an odd number, the following condition is added in addition to the above Equation 31.

Wow] dn 0:0

A filter having a low delay distortion and a voltage attenuation characteristic cm (or current attenuation characteristic oc represented by the Equation 29, in which coefiicients a a a of Q( '0) in the Equation 30 have been determined from the condition Equations 31 and 32 by giving the attenuation poles 9 and 9 can be formed from the admittance matrices in the Equations 25 and 26. Practical illustrative formations of filters of the above type will be described as follows.

Firstly, formation of a band pass filter having a low delay distortion, in which all of the attenuation poles of the attenuation characteristic exist at infinite frequencies as in the case of the above-mentioned examples and the attenuation distortion is made to be flat characteristic having a low attenuation distortion within a pass band range, will be described. This example relates to a channel filter having the attenuation characteristic as shown in FIG. 7 and adopted for 100 band F.S. telegraph apparatus under manufacture by the Japanese Kokusai Denshin Denwa K.K. In this example, since all of the attenuation poles are infinite, all of the factors 2 9 in the Equation 27 become infinite and A and B in the Equation 28 becomes as follows.

1 Qu Qu If let it be assumed that the secondary short-circuit impedance Z corresponds to the case where maximum power number is 7, that is, rank 7, the voltage phase characteristic [3 is represented by the following equation.

5N= zs is less than 2% within the range Q 4, as shown in FIG. 6. In this example, circuit constants A and B are obtained from the Equation 34, as follows.

If Q00) of the Equation 30 is selected so as to satisfy the followingcondition then the Equation 33 is represented by the following Equation 36 1 e B 1 l-i-a fl 1+a rz (36) The voltage attenuation quantity cm is obtained from the Equation 29 represented by the following equation.

The unknown factor a can be calculated from the condition Equations 31 and 32, but in this example the attenuation characteristic is a simple increase characteristic, so that value of a should be selected in such a manner that am of the Equation 37 is expanded within the range of o 1 so as to satisfy the condition and coefiicient of Q is made to be zero.

(The Equations 31 and 32 are used in the following example.)

In the Equation 39, the fact that denominators of A and B have the factor of (1+0.08259n means that imaginary frequency attenuation poles are included at (2%: 13.48.

From the Equations 34 and 39, a circuit network having imaginary frequency attenuation poles at 2: 1-13.48 and having secondary short-circuit impedance can be formed according to the following manner. In the case of realizing the attenuation poles in a lattice circuit network, this realization can be attained by inserting a series circuit element consisting of an inductance L and a capacitance C into a shunt arm or by inserting a parallel circuit element consisting of said inductance L and capacitance C into a series arm.

The following example relates to the case in which shunt arm including the series circuit element is adopted.

in the Equation 34 becomes infinite at Q=eo, so that inductance L exists in the series arm as in the case of the afore-mentioned example. Furthermore, since L, C series circuit element of the shunt arm is short-circuited at the condition Q=:j3.48, the following results is obtained.

From the above fact, value of the series arm inductance L is represented by the following equation.

D .2981 5 Jo n=-s.4a 0 R2 Power number of the obtained by removing jQL from 2;? is 6 rank and value of becomes zero at the condition 9:: 1'3 .48. That is includes a factor such as (QM-3.48 As a result, inductance L of the shunt arm becomes a negative inductance such as represented by the following equation.

n J t" n n-3.48 0.13e5

Nextly, the remained admittance 1 obtained by removing jo L ,,(Q +3.48

from

cannot has attenuation poles at finite angular frequencies, but at infinite angular frequencies, so that series inductances and parallel capacitances can be calculated successively as in the same manner as the afore-mentioned example. Thus, a low pass filter consisting of the network as shown in FIG. 8 is obtained. Various values The above filter can be converted to a band pass filter by carrying out the following well-known frequency conversion.

where 40 and ta are, respectively, lower and upper reference cut-off angular frequencies and w w When conversion of the Equation 41 is to be carried out, L -L and G -C in the 9 region are converted to series circuit element and parallel circuit element of L and C in the region. However, since L is a negative inductance, a negative element exists in the band pass filter elements, so that the filter cannot be practically used.

In order to avoid the above disadvantage, in this invention bridge T-type section such as shown in FIG. 9 is adopted and equivalent conversion circuits (a)--( in FIG. 10 are skillfully adopted, whereby a positive band pass filter can be obtained.

Let it be assumed now that then a band pass filter as shown in FIG. 11 can be realized.

This example relates to the case in which n in Q09) is equal to 1, that is, n=1, but in the case also in which n22 a filter having an excellent pass band characteristic can be obtained by the same manner as in the case of the afore-mentioned example. This modified circuit includes several bridge T-type sections.

In the following example, formulation of a filter circuit having a low delay distortion and having real attenuation poles at finite frequencies of the attenuation region will be described.

This example relates to design of a low delay distortion type filter, in which Z has ninth power rank as indicated by the following Equation 42, real attenuation pole. (52:82,) exists in the vicinity of 10, and voltage attenuation quantity becomes zero at 9:2 and 4.

where R =1,

If atenuation pole is assumed to correspond to the condition S2,,=10,

Y and Y are decomposed, the Y and Y are represented by the following Equations 48 and 49.

Although there are various conventional methods for realizing an actual circuit satisfying the said equations, a circuit having the most excellent and simple form, that is, the form adopted to compose the circuit by using circuit elements of minimum number and having a relation of lav-145 between the residues cannot be realized according to method, in which sections each including a given attenuation pole therein are cascaded. Reason of the above impossibility resides in that a circuit having attenuation poles at only the real frequencies (including infinite frequencies) can be realized, as well-known, by utilizing circuit elements number of which is equal to number (that is, power number) of the attenuation poles. However, it is generally diflicult to realize a circuit having complex attenuation poles (including imaginary frequency attenuation poles) by the most simple form as mentioned above. A complex attenuation pole has at least four attenuation poles which are mutually conjugated, and circuit elements number of which is larger than power number are necessary for realizing the circuit having the complex attenuation poles, as disclosed, for example, in Synthesis of Passive Networks written by Ernst A. Guillemin.

In this invention, realization of the circuit having the above-mentioned conjugate attenuation poles and simple 1 7 form has been attained by composing the circuit by parallel combination of only the most simple circuits each having required real frequency poles, thereby to cause complex attenuation poles exist as a whole. For this purpose, for example, the first and fourth terms on the right side of Y represented by the Equation 48 are adjusted so as to be mutually mullified at S2: 00, and this admittance matrix is decomposed into finite sections (in this example decomposed into three sections), whereby all sections can be converted to circuits having only real attenuation poles, that is, circuits of the most simple form can be obtained. For this purpose, a a a and Q 9 may be adusted, but in this example, only the position of n, is somewhat adjusted. In this case, residue number of a pole corresponding to 9:6 is

and it is only necessary to adjust so that said residue number is equal to 136a +1296a 1O (50) The unknown factors a a and Q, can be obtained by solving the Equation 50, as follows.

If Y and Y are decomposed by use of the values of the Equation 51, the Equations 52 and 53 are obtained.

.351 .351 .5577 .309206 rag-1 175 75 2575 20325 The fact that absolute values of the residue of. the poles at 9:2 and 4 in Y are equal to those in Y is caused by adoption of the following relation.

The desired circuit has no real frequency attenuation pole at the positions except the positions where (2:00; and

so that intimate coupling should be established at the poles of the circuit elements of the other admittance matrixs. That is,

3 51 .3 51 .2975 Y11= i 1175 175 J 5577 104-t'2 (57) The component represented by the Equation 55 and the component represented by the equation 56 have tripple attenuation poles at 9:00 respectively, and can be realized by adopting circuit elements number of which is less than that of the cases having no said tripple attenuation poles. The component matrix represented by the Equation 57 forms a shunt admittance establishing the real attenuation pole. The result of the present example corresponds to the parallel connection of the circuits rep resented by the afore-mentioned three component matrixs.

If the first component matrixs represented respectively by the Equations 55 and 56 are converted to impedance matrixs, the following results are obtained.

in the first component is positive, but

in the second component is negative, so that a phase inversion transformer is necessary. When the above component circuits are parallelly connected, the circuit of FIG. 12 is obtained.

However, if the circuit is formed as a balanced type, the phase inversion transformer is not necessary. Furthermore, when the band pass filter is converted, it is possible to make the phase inversion transformer unnecessary by adding a winding to the coil of parallel resonant circuit even when the circuit is of unbalanced type.

Accordingly, in FIG. 12, number of circuit element, except the phase inversion transformer becomes nine, and

is ninth power rank as shown in the Equation 42, so that the present circuit has circuit elements of minimum number. Of course, the present invention can be applied to other cases having other power ranks. By detecting the voltage delay characteristic of the present example from the residue numbers of all poles of Y it can be confirmed that deviation of the delay time is within the range less than 0.286% with respect to normalized value at S2 4 and even at 4 Q 6 the deviation is within the range less than 6.7%, so that the formed circuit has very excellent linearity. Voltage attenuation characteristic of the present example is shown in FIG. 13.

As clear from relation of the Equations 17-3, 18-2 and FIG. 3, the above explanation has been made in connection with the voltage characteristic as illustration, but the same explanation may be applicable for current attenuation quantity and current phase shift. That is, it is only necessary to apply the theory described in connection with A and B to C and D. Furthermore, since referring to working attenuation quantity and working phase shift, the working transmission coefficient can be obtained as an arithmetic mean value of the voltage transmission coefiicient and current transmission coefficient, application of the above-mentioned theory may be, of course, possible.

Furthermore, for the purpose of realizing the most simple circuit, adjustment of residue numbers has been considered in connection with Y and Y in the case of voltage transmission coefficient, but said adjustment should be applied to Z and Z (or Y and Y in the case of current transmission coefficient and to Z Z Z (or Y Y12, Y in the case of working transmission coefiicient.

We claim:

1. A filter having a low delay distortion and a low attenuation distortion and consisting of a lumped constant four terminal network; characterized by that when spectral impedance (2 and spectral admittance (Y g are defined respectively as (1r/2 residue number of secondary short-circuit impedance (2 and (1r/2 residue number of open-circuit admittance (Y of said network and .Q is equal to where l is length of a lossless uniform line; L and C are respectively inductance and capacitance per unit length of said line, said network is composed of circuit elements including respectively inductance and capacitance which are obtained from a spectral impedance )m or spectral admittance corresponding to two terminal short-circuit impedance T for admittance (Yg m which is obtained by superposing the short-circuit impedances and i I 2'," or superposition of the short-circuit admittances and at a ratio of 1/12, where m and n are integers, said Y;}(or Z52) said Yg;' or Zqg' being represented by the following equations, respectively (in the case of grade m) (in the case of grade (m+l)) and that when the voltage attenuation quantity (cm) or current attenuation quantity (a of said network are represented by the following Equation (a) where A, B, C, D correspond to factors in the following relations:

(I 20 lOgm 04 20 log Z Z21, V and I being secondary short-circuit impedance, open-circuit impedances, input voltage and input current of said network, and Q (jn) is represented by the following equation a being points within the pass band, said network is composed of a ladder circuit including several bridge T-type sections circuit elements of which have transmission characteristic of the above Equation 11, coeflicient factors a a a of said Equation a being determined from the followgzn ing simultaneous Equations 0 and d n. even a (or 0, d9 or 0 (c) n: odd a (or a --0;% or%%)=0 (d) w OCO T where l is length of a lossless uniform line; L and C are respectively inductance and capacitance per unit length of said line, said network is composed of circuit elements including respectively inductance and capacitancewhich are obtained from a spectral impedance I T for spectral admittance m corresponding to two terminal short-circuit impedance wer or admittance which is obtained by superposing the short-circuit impedances and or superposition of the short-circuit admittances and at a ratio of 1/ n, where m and n are integers, said Y3K or Z5;)

and

Yaw r Z being represented by the following equation, respectively:

1 1 -z 1T-T 1 l 2 2 Z (1 9") (m-W) (in the case of grade m) Q 1 ;m 1 1,m re e ze =j-" 2 2 1 n) (1 (in the case of grade (m+1)) and that when voltage attenuation quantity a or current attenuation quantity a of said network are represented by the following Equation (e) an 20 10g10 (1 20 log 22 where 52 .Q tion range A, B, C, D correspond to factors in the following relations Z Z V and I being secondary short-circuit impedance, open-circuit impedance, input voltage and input current of said network, and Q(jS2) is represented by the following equation a a a and the poles 0 0 9 being respectively m points within pass band range; said network is composed of a parallel combination of several component ladder circuits of the most simple form, said ladder circuits being respectively composed of the following component admittance matrix (f) where l is power rank of the network determined by the Equation (e) and are respectively residue numbers at pole or, of each component admittance section, and said coefficient factors a a a and S2 (2 S2 being determined from solving the multiple simultaneous Equations (f), (b) by taking the conditions (g) HERMAN KARL 'SAALBACH, Primary Examiner C. BARAFF, Assistant Examiner US. 01. X.R. 333-28,

. S2 are attenuation poles during attenua- 

